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1. Beach Party (1963)

Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A bearded anthropologist studies the habits of swingin' American teens while they enjoy the summer surfing, loving, and partying at the beach.

Director: William Asher | Stars: Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello

Votes: 2,341

2. Night Flight (1933)

Passed | 84 min | Drama

Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 945

3. I Was a Shoplifter (1950)

Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In 1950s California, the police force tries to infiltrate and neutralize a shoplifting crime ring operating in major department stores.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Andrea King, Tony Curtis

Votes: 451

4. Okinawa (1952)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Drama, History

Captain Hale takes over command of a U. S. Naval vessel as it prepares to take part in the invasion of Okinawa in the Second World War. His crew includes a rowdy gun crew who punctuate fire missions with banter and antics.

Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Cameron Mitchell, Richard Denning, Rhys Williams

Votes: 269

5. Red Skies of Montana (1952)

Passed | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Drama dealing with the hazardous work of the U. S. Forest Service's paratroop fire-fighters in Montana.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter, Richard Boone

Votes: 558

6. Flat Top (1952)

Approved | 83 min | Drama, War

During the Korean War, aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, Navy Commander Dan Collier reminisces about his first assignment on the same aircraft carrier in the war against Japan.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps, John Bromfield

Votes: 542

7. The Bamboo Blonde (1946)

Passed | 67 min | Music, Romance, War

A beautiful blonde singer who has a one-time fling with an engaged pilot, is confused by his B-29 bomber crew to be his real fiancée, and her image ends up being painted on the nose of their aircraft, for good luck, as the "Bamboo Blonde".

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Russell Wade, Iris Adrian

Votes: 447

8. The Threat (1949)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Vicious hood 'Red' Kluger escapes from Folsom State Prison and follows through on his threats to the detective who arrested him and the D.A. who convicted him.

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Michael O'Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw, Julie Bishop

Votes: 1,195

9. Her Jungle Love (1938)

Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Music

While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping unharmed with the aid of beautiful jungle... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Lynne Overman, J. Carrol Naish

Votes: 136

10. Air Hostess (1949)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Hansen School For Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students: librarian Ruth Jackson; nurse Lorraine Carter; and widow Jennifer White, whose husband was ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Gloria Henry, Ross Ford, Audrey Long, Marjorie Lord

Votes: 58

11. Tough Guy (1936)

Passed | 76 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.

Director: Chester M. Franklin | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Joseph Calleia, Rin Tin Tin Jr., Harvey Stephens

Votes: 236

12. 13 Hours by Air (1936)

Approved | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Airline pilot Jack Gordon (Fred MacMurray) on a flight from New York to San Francisco, is immediately attracted to beautiful passenger Felice Rollins (Joan Bennett). Known as a "lady's man"... See full summary »

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts, John Howard

Votes: 185

13. Jungle Patrol (1948)

Approved | 71 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A visit from a USO entertainer lifts the spirits of the pilots stationed in New Guinea, who are beginning to worry that their luck will soon run short.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Kristine Miller, Arthur Franz, Ross Ford, Tommy Noonan

Votes: 99

14. Traveling Saleslady (1935)

Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Romance

Angela Twitchell is the daughter of a tooth-paste manufacturer, Rufus K. Twitchell, who has monopolized the business for many years that he has grown conservative, and his rivals have begin... See full summary »

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, William Gargan, Hugh Herbert

Votes: 539

15. Alibi for Murder (1936)

Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Perry Travis (William Gargan) is a wise-cracking private detective-cum-amateur radio broadcaster who sets the plot in motion when he witnesses the murder of a scientist, Sir Conrad Stava (... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: William Gargan, Marguerite Churchill, Gene Morgan, Romaine Callender

Votes: 80

16. Tomorrow at Seven (1933)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace."

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Chester Morris, Vivienne Osborne, Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins

Votes: 408

17. Bruce Gentry (1949)

Approved | 246 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Famed aviator Bruce Gentry is working with scientist Andrew Benson, setting out to uncover the origin of a deadly secret weapon---an electronically controlled flying disc which can be ... See full summary »

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Stars: Tom Neal, Judy Clark, Ralph Hodges, Forrest Taylor

Votes: 66

18. Sabre Jet (1953)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, War

The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner ready when they return. Jane Carter (Coleen... See full summary »

Director: Louis King | Stars: Robert Stack, Coleen Gray, Richard Arlen, Julie Bishop

Votes: 164

19. Canal Zone (1942)

Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A conceited, reckless society playboy, Harley Ames, arrives at Ginger Bar, a former banana-shipping depot on the edge of the Panama Canal, that has been converted to a training-and-relay ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Chester Morris, Harriet Nelson, John Hubbard, Larry Parks

Votes: 58

20. Sea Raiders (1941)

Approved | 229 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The Dead End Kids go after a gang known as the Sea Raiders, which is sinking Allied shipping.

Directors: Ford Beebe, John Rawlins | Stars: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly

Votes: 78

21. Lady Bodyguard (1943)

Approved | 69 min | Comedy

A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a ... See full summary »

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Eddie Albert, Anne Shirley, Raymond Walburn, Roger Pryor

Votes: 66

22. Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943)

Approved | 245 min | Action, Drama, War

A Coast Guard officer is assigned to protect the coastline from spies, saboteurs and enemy agents.

Directors: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Stars: Don Terry, Walter Sande, Elyse Knox, Philip Ahn

Votes: 60

23. Panama Flo (1932)

Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A New York chorus girl is coerced into keeping house for an oil man in South America to pay off a debt. Her boyfriend comes to get her but she finds out that he is only out for the oil man's money.

Directors: Ralph Murphy, Tay Garnett | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Armstrong, Charles Bickford, Marjorie Peterson

Votes: 211

24. Pacific Blackout (1941)

Passed | 76 min | Mystery

While bombers roar overhead during a practice blackout in a large American West coast city, Robert Draper, is among the prisoners in a police van. The inventor of a new range finder for ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Robert Preston, Martha O'Driscoll, Philip Merivale, Eva Gabor

Votes: 78

25. Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)

Not Rated | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries.

Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: William Cagney, Edward J. Nugent, June Collyer, Edmund Breese

Votes: 137

26. Down in San Diego (1941)

Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets.

Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Bonita Granville, Ray McDonald, Dan Dailey, Leo Gorcey

Votes: 72

27. The Thrill Hunter (1933)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Cowboy Buck Crosby is a big blowhard and a liar. His supposedly great race car driving and flying feats gets him invited to co-star with Marjorie Lane in a Western. He survives the auto ... See full summary »

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Buck Jones, Dorothy Revier, Edward LeSaint, Eddie Kane

Votes: 114

28. Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946)

Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Following World War II, three discharged U. S. Air Corps fighter pilots decide to stay together and go into business for themselves. They form a company to operate a one-airplane freight ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Richard Crane, Faye Marlowe, Martha Stewart, Charles Russell

Votes: 17

29. Pursuit (1935)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Bush, the secretary of the head of a ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Chester Morris, Sally Eilers, Scotty Beckett, Henry Travers

Votes: 176

30. Flying Cadets (1941)

Passed | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: William Gargan, Edmund Lowe, Peggy Moran, Frank Albertson

Votes: 36

31. War Correspondent (1932)

Passed | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

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Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Lila Lee, Victor Wong

Votes: 30

32. Strange Journey (1946)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote ... See full summary »

Director: James Tinling | Stars: Paul Kelly, Osa Massen, Hillary Brooke, Lee Patrick

Votes: 45

33. Twilight on the Prairie (1944)

Approved | 62 min | Drama, Music, Western

The Buckaroos, cowboy musicians, are forced down at Little Lip, Texas, while flying to Hollywood to make their first movie. Band members Bucky, Phil, Jack, Chuck and Ginger find a "no ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Johnny Downs, Vivian Austin, Leon Errol, Connie Haines

34. Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 7 (1942)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Comedy

Opens with Janet Blair and a squadron of Air Corps men singing "Nothing Can Stop the Army, Now." Then cuts to a burlesque court-martial scene of Charlie McCarthy, who is being defended by ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: James Stewart, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd

Votes: 9